Pluriverse

The term “pluriverse” is a conceptual tool that intersects and constitutes a loose network of disciplines. It implies the existence of many worlds somehow interconnected, coexisting in time and space. It informs science and technology studies, critical geography, cultural anthropology, decolonial thought, posthuman feminism and so much more. “It advocates for a multiversal ethics, a pluriversal cosmopolitics based on interspecies and multi-natural kinships, one more aware of the multiplicity of worlds and world-making practices that make up the post-globalization scene.”1 Even more than this, we are inspired by this term as a capacious description of our varied relational interests and diverse fields of engagements. We see its influence in theoretical quantum physics, invisible forces, the spiritual realms, and the transdisciplinary space of multiple dimensions. For the 2024/25 year, we want to work with the pluriverse to explore what de la Cadena and Blaser call a “world of worlds”. The pluriverse challenges hierarchies of power and knowledge and brings forth different perspectives and realities in the world.

1 Mercier, Thomas Clément: “Uses of ‘the Pluriverse’: Cosmos, Interrupted – or the Others of Humanities”, in Ostium, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2019.